5. Hannah Gadsby: Solo Shows and Spectrum Gazelles with a Master of the Craft

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Mike discusses Hannah's award winning Netflix special “Nanette,” her new special “Douglas” and together they dig deep into the solo show process and how her new show may end up including a “spectrum gazelle.” Sponsored by Samuel Adams Please consider supporting: https://www.safehorizon.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Mike. Once again, our presenting sponsor is Sam Adams. It's my hometown
0:06.2	beer. They're doing a tremendously positive thing right now. There are so many industries
0:11.5	devastated by COVID, but perhaps none as severely as the restaurant industry. Sam Adams, along
0:17.9	with the nonprofit Greg Hill Foundation, have created the Restaurant Strong Fund to support
0:23.7	restaurant workers. Sam Adams has launched this fund, but they need your help. You can
0:28.6	support the effort by donating to the Restaurant Strong Fund at SamuelAdams.com. And now the show.
0:40.4	Hey everybody, it's Mike for Biglia. We are back with another episode of Working It Out.
0:47.6	This is Episode Five. I recorded this a few weeks ago with Hannah Gadsby, one of the Earth's
0:55.0	great comedians. She had a groundbreaking award-winning special a few years ago in Netflix called
1:00.0	The Net. If you haven't seen it, watch it. And she has a new special on Netflix called Douglas,
1:06.4	equally brilliant, but in different ways, we talk all about it. We get deep into process. This
1:12.8	might be my favorite so far. Enjoy. I saw your show at the Soho Theatre, and I've
1:24.7	and to this day I've never done this. I bought, I saw the show, The Lashon and that. I loved it.
1:31.4	I bought 10 tickets for friends. Oh my lord. Isn't that funny? And I've never I've never even done
1:39.8	that sense. Wow. That's kind of me and also like the lovely thing to do, but it's a very specific
1:48.2	show. Did your friends thank you? I mean, I should thank you. Thank you. They did. And actually,
1:55.4	one of the people who I sent to your show was Jacqueline Novak, who went on to have a hit
1:59.8	off-bra, off-bra, way show last year. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, and she loved it. She really loved it.
2:08.7	Maybe she hated it. You know, like then that's a good driver, isn't it?
2:13.0	Yeah, of course. I will never forget seeing the net in the Soho Theatre because what it,
2:19.7	it's got to be 100, 150, 200 seats. I guess it's a pretty small venue. Yeah, that's not a comedy show.
2:26.1	That's someone kicking off at a family, aren't you? Right. And now I'm on a billboard in an empty
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